# tech
## English
### Etymology

Clipping of technology, technician, and technique.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɛk/, [tʰɛk]
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛk
* Homophone: TEK

### Noun

tech (countable and uncountable, plural techs)
* (informal) Technology.
    I can't understand all this new tech.
** 2012, Nancy Lyons, Meghan Wilker, Interactive Project Management: Pixels, People, and Process:Remember, something that seems straightforward to you can be very scary to people who don't have enough info or tech knowledge to provide a context or meaning on their own.
** 2023 July 12, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Training starts on heavily delayed SWR Arterios”, in RAIL, number 987, page 22:"The tech on this is really good. But in essence, it's still a train any competent driver should be able to learn easily.
** Denotes technology businesses or the technology industry, especially in the field of computing and the Internet.
    Tech giants such as Google and Facebook have too much power.
    Tech stocks are down on Nasdaq.
    Tech workers can earn big money.
* (informal) Technician; technologist.
    Hyponyms: lab tech, surg tech
    The service writers collaborate with the techs and communicate with the customers.
** 2014, Jeff Jacobson, Growth, page 23:A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle.
* (informal) Technique.
* (informal, used in titles) Technical college; technical school.
    Greenville Technical College is informally known as Greenville Tech.
    In high school, he attended the tech program, studying construction trades.
* (informal) Short for technical rehearsal..
** 2017 November 30, Marc J. Franklin, “Inside Tech Rehearsal for Broadway’s SpongeBob SquarePants, The Broadway Musical”, in Playbill‎:Despite his early preparation, the three-week tech period is Nigrini’s only opportunity to make his vision come to fruition.
** 2020 December 31, Alyssa Bereznak, “Anyone Can Cook: The Oral History of Ratatouille: The Musical”, in The Ringer‎:Typically when you’re developing a musical you have hours of rehearsal and hours of tech, […] and everyone’s tired of the show by the end.

#### Derived terms

* agrotech
* alt-tech
* antiquitech
* big tech
* biotech
* cleantech
* cytotech
* deep tech
* edtech
* fintech
* foodtech
* hard tech
* high-tech
* histotech
* hi-tech
* legaltech
* low-tech
* martech
* medtech
* paytech
* sci-tech
* slick-tech
* tech abuse
* tech baron
* tech bro
* tech-bro
* tech debt
* tech diving
* tech giant
* tech guru
* tech head
* tech-head
* tech house
* techie
* tech neck
* tech noir
* tech-nomad
* tech-savvy
* tech stack
* tech support
* tech up
* tech vest
* tech week
* tech wreck
* vo-tech

#### Related terms

* technology
* technological

### Verb

tech (third-person singular simple present techs, present participle teching, simple past and past participle teched)
* (video games) To perform a technical (a special move in fighting games that cancels out an opposing attack).

### Anagrams

* Chet, chet, echt, etch, hect-

## Old Irish
### Alternative forms

* teg

### Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tegos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tégos (“cover, roof”), from *(s)teg- (“to cover”); cognate with Ancient Greek τέγος (tégos).
The -ch is analogical to other nouns and adjectives where final non-palatal -ch alternates with palatal -ig.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʲex/

### Noun

tech n (genitive tige or taige, nominative plural tige or taige)
* house
    Synonyms: attrab, dom, lann, tegdais, treb

#### Declension

Neuter s-stem :
| | Singular | Dual | Plural |
| Nominative | tech$^N$, teg | tech$^N$, teg | tige$^L$, taige$^H$ |
| Vocative | tech$^N$, teg | tech$^N$, teg | tige$^L$, taige$^H$ |
| Accusative | tech$^N$, teg | tech$^N$, teg | tige$^L$, taige$^H$ |
| Genitive | tige$^L$, taige$^H$ | tige, taige$^H$ | tige$^N$, taige$^H$ |
| Dative | tig$^L$, taig$^L$ | tigib | tigib |
| Initial mutations of a following adjective: $^H$ = triggers aspiration $^L$ = triggers lenition $^N$ = triggers nasalization ||||

#### Derived terms

* tech othrais
* tech screptra
* tech sét
* teglach

#### Descendants

* Irish: teach
* Manx: çhagh, thie
* Scottish Gaelic: taigh
* ⇒ Middle Irish: tech midchuarta
* ⇒ Middle Irish: tech n-óil
* ⇒ Middle Irish: tech talman
* ⇒ Classical Gaelic: teach othuir

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language